Tucker Carlson

I\'d been in journalism about two weeks when I realized I would do just about anything to avoid writing, and over the years, I have.

Maybe I\'m flattering myself, but I think my view of humanity has got steadily sunnier since I was 15. I have a higher opinion of politicians, for instance, than I did when I first moved to Washington.

You can\'t fix a problem if you don\'t have the words to describe it. You can\'t even think about it clearly.

Trump could teach Republicans in Washington a lot if only they stopped posturing long enough to watch carefully.

There are legitimate, even powerful arguments, to be made against the Bush administration\'s foreign policy. But those arguments are complicated, hard to explain, and, in the end, not all that sensational.

American officials have bent over backwards to show how sensitive they are to Muslim culture. It didn\'t seem very effective. They seem to be worried about winning the respect of other people.

Billy Tauzin is one of the most interesting people in Washington. He is smart, funny, and interesting.

Some white people are privileged, some aren\'t. Some black people are, some aren\'t. It\'s strikes me as, by definition, a racist attack in that it\'s making a generalization - a negative one - based on skin color.

I am really only interested in new information, not freelance opinion. I don\'t really care what you think off the top of your head.

Carrying an automatic weapon in a Third World country beyond the easy reach of higher authority? The job deion is like a bug light to borderline personalities.

It is one of the triumphs of modern society that the life of the average person with Down Syndrome has become strikingly normal.

Sharpton is a smart guy. In some ways, he\'s a good guy. But a moral arbiter? Let\'s not get carried away.

If it was up to the U.N., Saddam Hussein would still be killing his own people.

I don\'t care what anybody thinks.

Intelligence is not a moral category.

Like everyone else, rich people respond to incentives.

It\'s hard to be ambitious if you\'re content, isn\'t it?

I like Sarah Palin.

I have never been one to look beyond today.

If you want another world war, run up unsustainable debts.

In the absence of evidence, superstition. It\'s a Middle Ages thing. That\'s my theory anyway.

Canadians are so easily wounded.

To politicize a man\'s tragic death is about as low as you can go, isn\'t it?

Animals shouldn\'t be mistreated.

Journalists typically don\'t carry weapons, even in war zones, for fear of compromising their status as neutral observers. If you\'re armed, the theory goes, other armed people will consider you a target.

I do think - I\'m sure I\'m the lone voice in saying this - that Iran deserves to be annihilated. I think they\'re lunatics. I think they\'re evil.

America is secure because we can afford the strongest military in history. Once the U.S. economy is no longer dominant, we are no longer safe, and the world becomes chaotic.

You can look different but have the same values. That\'s not diversity; it\'s conformity.

I have no way of knowing how people really feel, but the vast majority of those I meet couldn\'t be nicer. Every once in a while someone barks at me. My New Year\'s resolution is not to bark back.

In addition to all the good things it\'s done, the Internet has empowered an awful lot of people who would have been best off disempowered, including quite a few bloggers on both sides.